[Mr.Tongue]

We need to invite this guy to join up. We can then have an Olympic Smoking Team Contender.

[TheBagman]

The Agitator » Blog Archive » A Letter I’d Like To See (But Won’t)

Dear America,

I take it back. I don’t apologize.

Because you know what? It’s none of your goddamned business. I work my ass off 10 months per year. It’s that hard work that gave you all those gooey feelings of patriotism last summer. If during my brief window of down time I want to relax, enjoy myself, and partake of a substance that’s a hell of a lot less bad for me than alcohol, tobacco, or, frankly, most of the prescription drugs most of you are taking, well, you can spare me the lecture.

I put myself through hell. I make my body do things nature never really intended us to endure. All world-class athletes do. We do it because you love to watch us push ourselves as far as we can possibly go. Some of us get hurt. Sometimes permanently. You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream.

Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have have without a shred of evidence beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders.

You’ll have to pardon my cynicism. But I call bullshit. You don’t give a damn about my health. You just get a voyeuristic thrill from watching an elite athlete fall from grace–all the better if you get to exercise a little moral righteousness in the process. And it’s hypocritical righteousness at that, given that 40 percent of you have tried pot at least once in your lives.

Here’s a crazy thought: If I can smoke a little dope and go on to win 14 Olympic gold medals, maybe pot smokers aren’t doomed to lives of couch surfing and video games, as our moronic government would have us believe. In fact, the list of successful pot smokers includes not just world class athletes like me, Howard, Williams, and others, it includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, the last three U.S. presidents, several Supreme Court justices, and luminaries and success stories from all sectors of business and the arts, sciences, and humanities.

So go ahead. Ban me from the next Olympics. Yank my endorsement deals. Stick your collective noses in the air and get all indignant on me. While you’re at it, keep arresting cancer and AIDS patients who dare to smoke the stuff because it deadens their pain, or enables them to eat. Keep sending in goon squads to kick down doors and shoot little old ladies, maim innocent toddlers, handcuff elderly post-polio patients to their beds at gunpoint, and slaughter the family pet.

Tell you what. I’ll make you a deal. I’ll apologize for smoking pot when every politician who ever did drugs and then voted to uphold or strengthen the drug laws marches his ass off to the nearest federal prison to serve out the sentence he wants to impose on everyone else for committing the same crimes he committed. I’ll apologize when the sons, daughters, and nephews of powerful politicians who get caught possessing or dealing drugs in the frat house or prep school get the same treatment as the no-name, probably black kid caught on the corner or the front stoop doing the same thing.

Until then, I for one will have none of it. I smoked pot. I liked it. I’ll probably do it again. I refuse to apologize for it, because by apologizing I help perpetuate this stupid lie, this idea that what someone puts into his own body on his own time is any of the government’s damned business. Or any of yours. I’m not going to bend over and allow myself to be propaganda for this wasteful, ridiculous, immoral war.

Go ahead and tear me down if you like. But let’s see you rationalize in your next lame ONDCP commercial how the greatest motherfucking swimmer the world has ever seen . . . is also a proud pot smoker.

Yours,

Michael Phelps

[AnnonUSA]

The Marijuana laws in this country are off the fucking wall. While I doubt legalization will ever happen, or should happen, Decriminalization needs to be enacted by all 50 states. The sheer amount of money involved makes this a common sense approach.

So if Phelps smoked once, we know he smokes all the time, though not prior to competition or training for competition. And as our Government and Law Enforcement officials will have no difficulty telling us, he is a shiftless, lazy, non-productive member of society that will have no future and will never achieve a thing ...Except, wait a minute, he already has...

Fuck the Government, Fuck the Police and their antiquated Marijuana laws...!

[Mr.Tongue]

Yeah-FUCK all ya'll bitches.

[el-producto]

BET HE SMOKES SOME GOOD

[TheBagman]

Originally Posted by el-producto

BET HE SMOKES SOME GOOD

Shit, if it makes me an Olympic swimmer, I'll have what he's smoking.

[el-producto]

I THINK I WOULD DROWN IF I SMOKED SOME POTENT, POTENT, POTENT BUD AND JUMPED IN A POOL

[gilligan]

i wouldn't have apologized. the president openly admitted to "experimenting" with drugs in college. shit happens son. that is how he got his gold metal winning lung capacity.

[cooloner]

to show support im volounteering my name for public use in displaying that greatness can still be an achievement of a stoner.

[taco]

no

[Mr.Tongue]

Originally Posted by cooloner

to show support im volounteering my name for public use in displaying that greatness can still be an achievement of a stoner.

1. What is this word? volounteering

2. No. You are a douche. You are a Communist. You are giving stoners and Commies everywhere a bad name. Cease and desist, and we shall never speak of this again.

[cooloner]

so that letter never happened?


what a letdown it was well said.

[cooloner]

lol i just noticed what it says at the top...what a tease!!!!

[taco]

good to see that awesomely high iq hard at work

[cooloner]

exactly HIGH

[Mr.Tongue]

Aim high, shoot low.